Cumulative parametric estimates for the distribution of the serial interval for monkeypox, fit to data from 79 patients using a gamma distribution. Monkeypox - Democratic Republic of the Congo. Funding: The authors were employed by the UK Health Security Agency but received no specific funding for this study. Mpox Virus in Human Samples other than Skin Rash Lesions and Implications for Transmission. Supplementary material B shows the results of the Weibull and lognormal models. 13 September 2022. WHO. Monkeypox is a zoonotic infection, caused by the monkeypox virus, that occurs mostly in West and Central Africa. NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. Austria is the fifteenth country outside of Africa to experience an endemic monkeypox outbreak. In such cases it may be reasonable to consider a model without the right truncation correctionthat is, assuming that P(S